The song is named after an area on the reserve where ancestors would gather. It aims to revisit both a place and a feeling.

One of those ancestors was Charlie Yahey’s great-grandfather, who inspired some of the lyrics.

“He was a dreamer and in my culture a dreamer is someone who had a dream and it comes to life, and he lived there. It’s where all my ancestors and the Dane-Zaa, the beaver people [went], which is my culture. Just wanting to go back to that place as a band, ” Yahey said.

The group created a music video for their song and collaborated with N’we Jinan, a non-profit mobile recording studio that brings music to schools across North America.

N’we Jinan music educator David Hodges said teaching kids to channel their emotions into art is therapeutic.

“Kids are confronted with these things on a day-to-day basis and it’s not just Indigenous youth, it’s all youth. And putting it into something that will either help release all those emotions or help you get through them, or put it out there, because for sure there’s other kids that are feeling the same thing as you,” Hodges said.

“If we think of the time of hide paintings or rock carvings or petroglyphs and earth work of recording indigenous history, this is like this generation’s way of marking their history, and themselves, and their reality,” said Claxton, who is of Hunkpapa Lakota ancestry and also a filmmaker and artist.

Blueberry River First Nations community members like Nicole Dennis are excited to see youth bring people together.